Waiting on Wednesday

The other day a family member sent me a text asking about a series of books. While I hadn’t read the series in question, I did suggest a few other books that I enjoyed. One series I recommended was The Forest of Hands and Teeth. I looked up the book to check the author’s name. Not only was I happy to find out that I was correct about her name (Carrie Ryan), but I was absolutely ecstatic to find out that book three is due out this spring! Yay!

So, this week I am Waiting on Wednesday for The Dark and Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan.


From the author's website:

THE DARK AND HOLLOW PLACES
March 2011

There are many things that Annah would like to forget: the look on her sister's face when she and Elias left her behind in the Forest of Hands and Teeth, her first glimpse of the horde as they found their way to the Dark City, the sear of the barbed wire that would scar her for life. But most of all, Annah would like to forget the morning Elias left her for the Recruiters.

Annah's world stopped that day and she's been waiting for him to come home ever since. Without him, her life doesn't feel much different from that of the dead that roam the wasted city around her. Then she meets Catcher and everything feels alive again.

Except, Catcher has his own secrets—dark, terrifying truths that link him to a past Annah's longed to forget, and to a future too deadly to consider. And now it's up to Annah—can she continue to live in a world drenched in the blood of the living? Or is death the only escape from the Return's destruction?

Waiting on Wednesday

Recently an audiobook catalog arrived on my desk. This is not an unusual occurrence. I could probably wallpaper a few mansions with the catalogs that are given to me. Usually I toss them straight into the recycling bin. I didn’t with this audiobook catalog, though. What caught my eye was the cover of a book I want to read: The Marbury Lens by Andrew Smith.

I had the opportunity to speak with the author at the YALSA Coffee Klatch in June. I very much enjoyed his book Ghost Medicine (and told him that as well). However, this book is a completely different genre of teen fiction.

From Macmillan's website:

Sixteen-year-old Jack gets drunk and is in the wrong place at the wrong time. He is kidnapped. He escapes, narrowly. The only person he tells is his best friend, Conner. When they arrive in London as planned for summer break, a stranger hands Jack a pair of glasses. Through the lenses, he sees another world called Marbury.

There is war in Marbury. It is a desolate and murderous place where Jack is responsible for the survival of two younger boys. Conner is there, too. But he’s trying to kill them.

Meanwhile, Jack is falling in love with an English girl, and afraid he’s losing his mind.

Conner tells Jack it’s going to be okay.

But it’s not.

Andrew Smith has written his most beautiful and personal novel yet, as he explores the nightmarish outer limits of what trauma can do to our bodies and our minds.

Here's the book trailer:




This book comes out on November 9. What a lovely (belated) birthday gift!

Waiting on Wednesday

It's been some time since I've done a Waiting on Wednesday post. This Wednesday, I am anxioiusly awaiting the third - and final - book in Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games series: Mockingjay. It is due in stores on August 24. That's only about three weeks away! Of course, I'm down the list for holds at work, so I will be lucky to get my hands on a copy before October.

Waiting on Wednesday

Last week I ended up with a great reason to look forward to September. My daily email/chat friend, Sharon, and I are going to meet in London, Ontario. Yay! Road trip!! Sharon lives in Canada and will be flying to London, since it is just a few hours from Detroit. So, I will drop off the puppyboy, pick up the mom and we will cross the bridge from Detroit to Windsor.

Today I found a second reason to look forward to September. The next book in the Bloody Jack series by L.A. Meyer is supposed to be available on September 13. I. Cannot. Wait. I think this is my favorite series ever.

September is going to be awesome. Now to just get through the next five months…

Waiting on Wednesday

It’s been some time since I’ve done a Waiting on Wednesday. When I saw this book advertised while looking through a catalog a few days ago, I knew that I would do a WoW this week.

The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan is a companion novel to The Forest of Hands and Teeth (an excellent YA horror novel).

The product description (taken from Amazon.com):

“Gabry lives a quiet life. As safe a life as is possible in a town trapped between a forest and the ocean, in a world teeming with the dead, who constantly hunger for those still living. She’s content on her side of the Barrier, happy to let her friends dream of the Dark City up the coast while she watches from the top of her lighthouse. But there are threats the Barrier cannot hold back. Threats like the secrets Gabry’s mother thought she left behind when she escaped from the Sisterhood and the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Like the cult of religious zealots who worship the dead. Like the stranger from the forest who seems to know Gabry. And suddenly, everything is changing. One reckless moment, and half of Gabry’s generation is dead, the other half imprisoned. Now Gabry only knows one thing: she must face the forest of her mother’s past in order to save herself and the one she loves.”

I loved The Forest of Hands and Teeth and can’t wait to get my hands on and sink my teeth in to The Dead-Tossed Waves. Is it March yet?

Waiting on Wednesday

It’s Wednesday – and I am back in town – so that means it is time for another edition of Waiting on Wednesday!

This Wednesday I am waiting for the newest book in the Outlander series to be published. Specifically in audiobook, since that is how I’ve read the rest.

Good news for me, the book comes out this fall – September 22. Even better news for me, according to Amazon.com, the audio version is set to be released on September 30. Here’s hoping that my library buys it! By the time I’m able to get my hands on a free copy, I should actually be ready for it. I still have one more book in the series that I still need to listen to, and it is going into my car’s CD player when I leave work tonight.

Here’s the synopsis of An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon (text pasted below) – the seventh book of her fantastic Outlander series.

Diana Gabaldon’s brilliant storytelling has captivated millions of readers in her bestselling and award-winning Outlander saga. Now, in An Echo in the Bone, the enormously anticipated seventh volume, Gabaldon continues the extraordinary story of the eighteenth-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-traveling wife, Claire Randall.

Jamie Fraser, former Jacobite and reluctant rebel, is already certain of three things about the American rebellion: The Americans will win, fighting on the side of victory is no guarantee of survival, and he’d rather die than have to face his illegitimate son–a young lieutenant in the British army–across the barrel of a gun.

Claire Randall knows that the Americans will win, too, but not what the ultimate price may be. That price won’t include Jamie’s life or his happiness, though–not if she has anything to say about it.

Meanwhile, in the relative safety of the twentieth century, Jamie and Claire’s daughter, Brianna, and her husband, Roger MacKenzie, have resettled in a historic Scottish home where, across a chasm of two centuries, the unfolding drama of Brianna’s parents’ story comes to life through Claire’s letters. The fragile pages reveal Claire’s love for battle-scarred Jamie Fraser and their flight from North Carolina to the high seas, where they encounter privateers and ocean battles–as Brianna and Roger search for clues not only to Claire’s fate but to their own. Because the future of the MacKenzie family in the Highlands is mysteriously, irrevocably, and intimately entwined with life and death in war-torn colonial America.

With stunning cameos of historical characters from Benedict Arnold to Benjamin Franklin, An Echo in the Bone is a soaring masterpiece of imagination, insight, character, and adventure–a novel that echoes in the mind long after the last page is turned.

Waiting on Wednesday

Wow…it’s Wednesday again already. How did that happen?

This week’s Waiting on Wednesday is not necessarily book related. It is partially, but not in the more traditional sense. Why is that, you ask? Because this Wednesday I am waiting (impatiently) for the big screen adaptation of my favorite children’s book, Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, which is coming to theaters on October 16, 2009.

Watch the trailer here.

A few plot summaries from imdb.com:

Young, mischievous Max is sent to bed without his supper, but when his bedroom turns in to a magical jungle landscape filled with strange creatures, he embarks on a wild imaginary adventure.

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An adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's story, where Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world--a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler.

The movie is directed by Spike Jonze.

Is it October yet?

Waiting on Wednesday

This Wednesday I am waiting (impatiently) for the latest Georgia Nicholson book by Louise Rennison. Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me? is due to hit bookshelves on October 6, 2009. I’ve heard it is the last in the series.

While I didn’t love the previous tale as much as I have the rest of the series, I’m still looking forward to reading more of Georgia’s hilarious misadventures…and seeing who she ends up with as her one and only. Robbie the Sex God? Masimo the Italian Dreamboat? Dave the Laugh?

I'd post a synopsis, but there isn't one available yet.

Waiting on Wednesday

How about a book related WoW?

This week I am waiting for the next book in Karen Marie Moning’s Fever series. Dreamfever is due to hit shelves on August 18.

Product Description
(From Amazon.com)

He has stolen her past, but MacKayla will never allow her sister’s murderer to take her future. Yet even the uniquely gifted sidhe-seer is no match for the Lord Master, who has unleashed an insatiable sexual craving that consumes Mac’s every thought—and thrusts her into the seductive realm of two very dangerous men, both of whom she desires but dares not trust.

As the enigmatic Jericho Barrons and the sensual Fae prince V’lane vie for her body and soul, as cryptic entries from her sister’s diary mysteriously appear and the power of the Dark Book weaves its annihilating path through the city, Mac’s greatest enemy delivers a final challenge...

It’s an invitation Mac cannot refuse, one that sends her racing home to Georgia, where an even darker threat awaits. With her parents missing and the lives of her loved ones under siege, Mac is about to come face-to-face with a soul-shattering truth—about herself and her sister, about Jericho Barrons…and about the world she thought she knew. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Why I am waiting for the book?
I loved the previous three books in this series (and most of the books in her previous published Highlander series). The end of the previous book - Faefever - left the reader hanging and wanting to know more of MacKayla’s fate.

Waiting on Wednesday -The Save Ohio Libraries Edition

It’s Wednesday, which means I should do a Waiting on Wednesday.

I am waiting…to hear if libraries across Ohio will be forced to close. The outpouring of support from communities across the state gives me a little hope that the outcome will be a happier one.

Today – while working hard at figuring out our branch program offerings for this fall (so far 210 programs at 5 branches over 4 months…and it isn’t complete yet!), I have been posting links on Facebook. The links are mostly for news articles about what will happen to local libraries if this budget is passed. Over and over again, library directors and other administrators are saying the same two key words: Massive layoffs. Widespread closures.

Forty-some percent of Ohio libraries are lucky enough to have property tax incomes to supplement what they receive from the state budget. However, that does not mean they are safe. Quite the contrary. While my library has a levy, all it means is that perhaps Main could stay open with a reduced staff, but there would still be a layoff of around 50%. employees (This is my guesstimation from conversations with various library employees). This is in an area already heavily hit with high unemployment rates.

I’ll continue to wait this Wednesday for next Wednesday, for by then I will know more certainly if the library will be turning off the lights for the last time.

Waiting on Wednesday

In an attempt to post more regularly, I am going to join in the “Waiting on Wednesday” and “Library Loot” craze. I’ve seen both on other blogs (namely The Magic of Ink). From what I’ve gathered, they were created by the bloggers of Breaking the Spine.

So, without further ado, my first Waiting on Wednesday. Library Loot can wait until later this week.

Wait…am I suppose to pick just one book? Ack! But…but…but there are so many that I can’t wait to get my hands on and sink my bookloving teeth into. Hrmmm….what to choose for this initial post…

Oohers…I know!

The next installment of one of my all-time favorite series: Bloody Jack. The seventh book of the series is: Rapture of the Deep: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Soldier, Sailor, Mermaid, Spy

Amazon.com has September 28, 2009 as the release date. Here is the product description from the site:

On the very day that Jacky Faber is to wed her true love, she is kidnapped by British Naval Intelligence and forced to embark on yet another daring mission—this time to search for sunken Spanish gold. But when Jacky is involved, things don't always go as planned.

Jacky has survived battles on the high seas, the stifling propriety of a Boston finishing school, and even confinement in a dank French prison. But no adventure has quite matched her opportunistic street-urchin desires—until now.

Have I mentioned how much I adore this series? How about how much my sister G and my mom also love this series? Or how at least one coworker and two patrons are now hooked on the series do to my raving about it?

I. Cannot. Wait. Is it September yet?